Bow for carriage-tops



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' B W FOB-CAR IA TOPs- No. 307,803. Patented Nov. 11, 1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFIC E.

IDA M. BITTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, (ADMIN ISTRATRIX OF A. O. HENRY BITTER, DEGEASED,) ASSIGNOR TO EMMA A. RAYMOND, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BOW FOR CARRIAGE-TOPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,803, dated November 11, 1884. Application filed July 3, 1884. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that A. O. HENRY BITTER, late of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Bows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in carriage-bows, the object of the same being to provide a strong, light, durable, and inexpensive bow; and with these ends in View the invention consists in a carriagetop bow constructed of half-sections of wood having the grain reversed, and provided with a solid wooden core.

The invention further consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and

pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the two half-sections and core before they are glued together. Fig. 2 is aview of the same combined and in an unfinished state. Fig. 3 represents the same in its finished state, and Fig. 4is a cross-section of the latter.

Astrip of suitable wood, Aseasoned ash,

for examplesomewhat wider than the longest diameter of a cross-section of the bow, and somewhat thicker than one-half the short diameter of a cross-section of the bow, is provided with a smooth longitudinal groove, a,

centrally located along one of its faces. The strip of wood is conveniently twice the length of the required bow, and after having been grooved is cut at themiddle and one part laid over on the other with the grain reversed and 40 the grooved faces in contact. A core, B, of any close-grained wo0dhard maple, for exampleshaped to fit the groove a, is inserted in the said groove, and the parts having been prepared with glue are pressed together. The

shape of the groove a may be semicircular, oval, diamond, or any other desired shape in cross-section, and the wood core B constructed to snugly fit therein. The form shown in the drawings is a convenient and durable form, the core being round, and the bow complete, being oval in cross-section, and the upper end of the bow somewhat more elongated in cross-section than thelower end. The reversing of the grain prevents warping, any tendency the sections may have of thiskind being arrestedby 5 5 the one section acting against the other,while the glue-joint between the core and the enveloping sections acts as a stop both to the compression and tearing asunder of the molecules necessary to form a bend or break. In fact, the three parts composing the bowviz., the two half-sections with reversed grain,and the center core with an entirely different grain or with the same grain, and united to the sections by a glue-j ointform acombination calculated to withstand to the last degree any tendency to bend, break, or twist.

The core is herein spoken of as solid wood. It may be a single piece, as represented, which is the more simple and inexpensive construction; or it may be formed of longitudinal sections united by' glue or its equivalent.

Having fully described the invention, What is claimed as new is 1. In a carriage-bow, the combination,with 7 5 a wood core, of enveloping wood sections secured to each other and the core by glue or its equivalent, and having reversed grain, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a carriagebow consisting of two half-sections of wood with the grain reversed, anda central wood core, the sections and core being firmly united by glue or its equivalent, substantially as set forth. 8

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IDA M. BITTER,

Administratrix. \Vitnesses:

F. L. RAYMOND, .A. G. CARPENTER. 

